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		<span class="c6"></span></p><p class="c5"><span>Now I can explain how the first article is currently being hosted for all (</span><span>I really mean me...</span><span>) to see! Basically I just need to find a domain name (ihearyoulikeblogs.com), host and HTML format to put this all in. &nbsp;I have written one other rather limited website for fun, so I am not going in completely blind. &nbsp;If I hadn&rsquo;t tried that first I am not sure this site would even exist.</span></p><p class="c2"><span></span></p><p class="c5"><span>So first thing to do is register the domain name. &nbsp;I went to </span><span class="c4"><a class="c15" href="http://namecheap.com">namecheap.com</a></span><span>&nbsp;and luckily found that this site name was available. &nbsp;Awesome! I was somewhat surprised this wasn&rsquo;t taken yet, at least I have one original idea. &nbsp;So I paid my $10 and am now the proud owner of this domain for at least a year.</span></p><p class="c2"><span></span></p><p class="c5"><span>Having a domain name is useless if there is nowhere to host all the files. &nbsp;Since I am just starting this, I am going to try putting this on a dropbox.com account until I need to upgrade my hosting situation. &nbsp;Basically you can just set up a dropbox account and store the site files in your public directory that is made when you install the program. &nbsp;If you right click on a file in your dropbox</span><span>&nbsp;public folder you should be able to get a copy of the public link to the file. &nbsp;If you paste this into you browser on any computer this should bring up your file once it is sync&rsquo;d with dropbox.</span></p><p class="c2"><span></span></p><p class="c5"><span>Now you need to</span>
		<span>&nbsp;tell </span><span class="c4"><a class="c15" href="http://namecheap.com">namecheap.com</a></span><span>&nbsp;to redirect the domain name to the url that we just got from our dropbox</span><span>&nbsp;file</span><span>. </span><span>To do that you sign in to your account, go into </span><span class="c0">Manage Domains </span><span>under </span><span class="c0">My Account</span><span>. From here just click on the domain you want to manage then go to URL Forwarding on the left. &nbsp;From here you can set </span><span class="c0">www</span><span>&nbsp;box to your dropbox file link. I had to use URL Redirect (301) to get it to redirect properly, but it seems to work. Then </span><span>Tada</span><span>, I have just h</span><span>osted a website in less than 10 minutes. Although this site has nothing on it yet at this point. &nbsp;Another issue with this method is that my domain name isn</span><span>&rsquo;t visible when you are at the site, you get the dropbox.com domain. &nbsp;For now this is fine, and I will fix this issue when I move things to a real host. &nbsp;You likely won&rsquo;t notice this by the time you read this article.</span></p>
		<p class="c2"><span></span></p><p class="c5"><span>Next I need some sort of a template to put all this text into. &nbsp;For now I found a decent tutorial on one of my favorite site lifehacker.com. &nbsp;This goes over some of the most basic html stuff and provides a decent template to start with. &nbsp;I took this and modified it to start my last site so this site may look similar to that for now. &nbsp;So I will use this as my first iteration of iheardyoulikeblogs.com. &nbsp;I am only using html and a little css styling at the moment. &nbsp;Hopefully we can progress into some more complicated layouts later. &nbsp;One quick tip I found that made exporting this from google docs easier was to just use the download as HTML. &nbsp;This allowed me to pull out the text I wanted and not have to worry too much about formatting for now.</span></p><p class="c2"><span></span></p><p class="c5">
		<span>I think this is a good start and overview on how I got things going for now. &nbsp;I will go into more details on some of these things as we go, since I am sure there ar</span><span>e few more details I have left out</span><span>. I don&rsquo;t want to make these post too long and boring for everyone.</span></p>
		<p class="c2"><span></span></p><p class="c5"><span>Since there will not be a comments section in the near future until I figure it out, here is an email address for any feedback </span><span class="c4"><a class="c15" href="mailto:info@ihearyoulikeblogs.com">info@ihearyoulikeblogs.com</a></span><span>. &nbsp;I will explain the email situation as well down the road.</span></p><p class="c14 c10"><span class="c7"></span></p><p class="c10"><span>Date: 12/19/2011</span></p>
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